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This week, the Open Source Karma has been cast-aside. We’re going proprietary in a big way. We’re going to the very heart of Oracle’s power, deep inside the RDBMS – yes – it’s PL/SQL.

This post is dedicated to ( and essentially co-written by) Simon. Yes, my long-time best mate, long-time Luton Town fan, long-time Teradata expert and long time everything really ( we’ll he’s not as young as he was).
After all these years, Simon has become a bit curious about this PL/SQL thing I’m always going on about and would like to know more.
It is this desire – and large amounts of beer – that has persuaded him to play the Igor to my mad scientist and have a wander through this very quick guide to the language at the heart of most Oracle applications. In fact we came up with several possible descriptions of Simon’s role in this post, but he had a “hunch” that this was the right one.
So for him, and any other programmers who want to get up and running with PL/SQL, but don’t need to be told what a variable is, what follows is – not so much a PL/SQL 101 – as a PL/SQL 23-and-a-bit. Continue reading →